Price No Object Amps

higherfi.com has a $600k turntable for sale. Take a look. It even has an electronic microscope built in.

Yup, Lamm, VAC, Gryphon, Ypsilon and Wavac are always on my list. Just not top of the line models.

I suspect that some did hear Wavac amps. Reasonably priced, I think I would take them unheard. Take up a lot of space, though.

Still, those are freightening amounts of dead Washingtons, even to hardcore audiophiles. Besides, you would really need big and well-tuned room to make full use of, say, half a million dollar system.
However, $5 for a cup of good coffee in Manhattan is not fun either, and some have three every day. Do the math, how much would they spend for 25 years?

We are not talking about better or worse or even different sounding amps. We are talking about ridiculous prices and prices beyond the ridiculous.

Better than on some other things, though.
As for that turntable, if it is indeed objectively enough the very best table by a significant margin, it has the right to cost what it does.

Yeah, but used prices might be within the reach for some. Problem is, besides the price, that they will be very difficult to find used. Still, $50k is not $500k, terrible but not outrageous, and $130k is somewhere in-between. I keep hearing praise of Gryphons and Ypsilons, though. I bet, I would have a hard time choosing between Gryphon Diablo and Ypsilon integrateds if I had to.

This statement is also false in a sense of "mine is better than your".